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Who's Hiring: Where are all the Candidates? I posted for a Python developer to take over my contract in London doing interesting work for good pay and I've onl

by aidos 13y ago

Who's Hiring: Where are all the Candidates? I posted for a Python developer to take over my contract in London doing interesting work for good pay and I've only had remote respondents. Surprised me a little. So I'll say it again :) Can someone please take my job?

ownagefool 13y ago
You're probably better posting on an actual jobsite like cwjobs or maybe even gumtree. There are tons of python developers in London, but you're only looking at a limited subset by posting here and as a UK contractor, I barely even check these threads because of the signal to noise ratio. I don't have the python experience though, so no email from me. :p
krmmalik 13y ago
Can you tell me more about the job? I know a Python developer who is originally from London, so he may be interested.
muyuu 13y ago
What do you consider good pay? If you have no candidates it may not be very good (or you haven't advertised the position properly).
tracker1 13y ago
If your area is like Phoenix-AZ-USA, then you may well have more jobs than developers to fill them. You need to either expand your candidate pool to those whom are less proficient in Python but willing and able to learn, or you need to offer a compelling reason for someone to leave their stable job. Usually a 10-20% increase in salary+benefits will do this. If you are offering 10% more than your competitors in terms of pay, you stand a better chance at recruiting talent away from other companies... if you offer a "senior" position at typical pay, you can't expect much. Personally, I'm tempted to put on my outgoing voicemail (about half my inbound calls are recruiters) that I'm not interested in less than X in my local area or Y out of state. X being about 10% more than I currently make, and Y being 30% more (most areas recruiting, such as SF/SV cost that much more to even live there).

by aidos 13y ago

ownagefool 13y ago

You're probably better posting on an actual jobsite like cwjobs or maybe even gumtree. There are tons of python developers in London, but you're only looking at a limited subset by posting here and as a UK contractor, I barely even check these threads because of the signal to noise ratio. I don't have the python experience though, so no email from me. :p

krmmalik 13y ago

Can you tell me more about the job? I know a Python developer who is originally from London, so he may be interested.

muyuu 13y ago

What do you consider good pay? If you have no candidates it may not be very good (or you haven't advertised the position properly).

tracker1 13y ago

If your area is like Phoenix-AZ-USA, then you may well have more jobs than developers to fill them. You need to either expand your candidate pool to those whom are less proficient in Python but willing and able to learn, or you need to offer a compelling reason for someone to leave their stable job. Usually a 10-20% increase in salary+benefits will do this. If you are offering 10% more than your competitors in terms of pay, you stand a better chance at recruiting talent away from other companies... if you offer a "senior" position at typical pay, you can't expect much. Personally, I'm tempted to put on my outgoing voicemail (about half my inbound calls are recruiters) that I'm not interested in less than X in my local area or Y out of state. X being about 10% more than I currently make, and Y being 30% more (most areas recruiting, such as SF/SV cost that much more to even live there).